If you are a Windows user, you might want to check out Athame, a graphical music download client. It also seems to work well on Mono, if you use Linux or OS X.

RedSea

Music downloader and tagger for Tidal. For educational use only, and may break in the future.

Current state

RedSea as it stands is no longer supported by me (redsudo). It has been deprecated in favor of a more functional replacement. Feel free to fork and revive it though. I will also occasionally look at PRs.

Introduction

RedSea is a music downloader and tagger for the Tidal music streaming service. It is designed partially as a Tidal API example ~~and partially as a proof-of-concept of the Tidal lossless download hack~~. Tidal seems to have fixed this hack, so you can't download FLACs on a normal subscription. :(. This repository also hosts a wildly incomplete Python Tidal API implementation - it is contained in config/tidal_api.py and only requires requests to be installed. Note that you will you have to implement the Tidal lossless download hack yourself -- you can find this in mediadownloader.py.

Requirements

Python 3.5
requests
mutagen
pycrypto

Setting up (with pip)

Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies
Run python redsea.py -h to view the help file
Run python redsea.py urls to download lossless files from urls

Setting up (with Pipenv)

Run pipenv install --three to install dependencies in a virtual env using Pipenv
Run pipenv run python redsea.py -h to view the help file
Run pipenv run python redsea.py urls to download lossless files from urls

How to add accounts/sessions

usage:  redsea.py auth list
        redsea.py auth add
        redsea.py auth remove
        redsea.py auth default
        redsea.py auth reauth

positional arguments:

list                Lists stored sessions if any exist

add                 Prompts for a Tidal username and password and
                    authorizes a session which then gets stored in
                    the sessions file

remove              Removes a stored session from the sessions file
                    by name

default             Set a default account for redsea to use when the
                    -a flag has not been passed

reauth              Reauthenticates with server to get new sessionId

How to use

usage: redsea.py [-h] [-p PRESET] [-a ACCOUNT] [-s] urls [urls ...]

A music downloader for Tidal.

positional arguments:
urls                    The URLs to download. You may need to wrap the URLs in
                        double quotes if you have issues downloading.

optional arguments:
-h, --help              show this help message and exit
-p PRESET, --preset PRESET
                        Select a download preset. Defaults to Lossless only.
                        See /config/settings.py for presets
-a ACCOUNT, --account ACCOUNT
                        Select a session/account to use. Defaults to
                        the "default" session. If it does not exist, you
                        will be prompted to create one
-s, --skip            Pass this flag to skip track and continue when a track
                        does not meet the requested quality

Tidal issues

Sometimes, tracks will be tagged with a useless version (for instance, "(album version)"), or have the same version twice "(album version)(album version)". This is because tracks in Tidal are not consistent in terms of metadata - sometimes a version may be included in the track title, included in the version field, or both.
Tracks may be tagged with an inaccurate release year; this may be because of Tidal only having the "rerelease" or "remastered" version but showing it as the original.

TODO

Filename sanitisation is overzealous
Playlists are treated like albums

Config reference

BRUTEFORCEREGION: When True, redsea will iterate through every available account and attempt to download when the default or specified session fails to download the release

`Stock Presets`

default: FLAC 44.1k / 16bit only

best_available: Download the highest available quality (MQA > FLAC > 320 > 96)

mqa_flac: Accept both MQA 24bit and FLAC 16bit

MQA: Only allow FLAC 44.1k / 24bit (includes 'folded' 96k content)

FLAC: FLAC 44.1k / 16bit only

320: AAC ~320 VBR only

96: AAC ~96 VBR only

`Preset Configuration Variables`

keep_cover_jpg: Whether to keep the cover.jpg file in the album directory

embed_album_art: Whether to embed album art or not into the file.

save_album_json: save the album metadata as a json file

tries: How many times to attempt to get a valid stream URL.

path: Base download directory

Format variables are {title}, {artist}, {album}, {tracknumber} and {albumartist}.

track_format: How tracks are formatted. The relevant extension is appended to the end.

album_format: Base album directory - tracks and cover art are stored here. May have slashes in it, for instance {artist}/{album}.

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